Chin wag

/ˈt͡ʃɪnˌwæɡ/ · noun

Meaning

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) An informal conversation, usually about everyday matters; a chat, a gossip..

Definitions by Sense

1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) An informal conversation, usually about everyday matters; a chat, a gossip.
2. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) To chat, to gossip.

Example Sentences

Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.

Every major network has at least one prime-time newsmagazine, which features extended coverage of gruesome crimes or amazing trials, intimate chinwags with the stars, and exposés of the horrors lurking in your own home, […]

Hundreds of Reading folk got together for coffee, cake and a good old fashioned chinwag during a national cancer charity's coffee morning fundraiser.

"I have a bone to pick with you and I can't possibly nap until we've had a jolly good chin-wag about it." / "Chin-wag?" / "A powwow. A council of war."

I saw the pair of them chinwagging by the water-cooler.

We stamped around to get some circulation into our legs after a stint of three hours in the cold water, had a pull at a bottle of wine, and chinwagged with some of the other fishermen who were clambering out of their waders beside their parked cars.

[Trevor] Nunn gives the play [All's Well That Ends Well] more than a touch of [Anton] Chekhov; he gives it the great Slav physician's context: arrivals and departures and a country estate and house in which Helena is gentlewoman to the Countess Rossilion (Peggy Ashcroft) who has an old gnarled retainer, Lavache, the Clown (Geoffrey Hutchings), with whom she chinwags and at whom she affectionately rails.

By the light of the big candles on stakes clusters of people were eating and drinking and chinwagging about the topics of the past four days.

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• chinwags
• chin wag
• chin-wag
• chinwagging
• chinwagged

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